Runway

Deborah Wilder Moseley is not the most talented actor in her family - or so she believes. Born to Lynna Joy Armour, who won an Atlas Award in 1956 for her performance in "The Moon is Blue," and William Moseley, who worked for NBC and produced the Sunday afternoon soap opera "Matinee Theater," Moseley grew up in a highly creative environment. It is no wonder, then, that by age 6 she had taken a page from her parents' book. Now 56, the Santa Ana resident has racked up three decades of experience making commercials and working on television and in film.

After a summer of pastel-colored fashions and sizzling-hot beach wear, Newport-Mesa students are getting ready to go back to school. While the early birds may have finished their shopping weeks ago, South Coast Plaza was bustling this weekend with parents and children shopping for the latest fall styles. To help some choose the right fashions, a back-to-school fashion show featuring clothes from Gymboree, Beach Works, Oilily and other stores was held twice on Sunday as part of the Festival of Children.

In response to “FAA to tweak takeoffs at JWA,” Feb. 27: The best way to reduce the noise footprint over Newport Beach would be to extend the runway at John Wayne Airport farther north and closer to the San Diego Freeway. The farther back that the air carriers start their southbound take-offs, the higher they will be when they fly over Newport Beach, and the lower their noise impact will be. Extending the runway to the north will also reduce the air pollution caused by taxiing delays, as the air carriers wait to cross the shorter runway, 19 Left, to get to the longer runway, 19 Right.

Paul Clinton JOHN WAYNE AIRPORT -- Airport officials hope to secure approval from the Orange County Board of Supervisors at today's meeting for an $8.4-million package of improvements for the airport's taxiways and roadways. Airport Director Alan Murphy will ask the board to approve the package, which would be funded mostly with a federal grant. "This grant will help us improve airport conditions," said airport spokeswoman Yolanda Perez. "Some of those elements are definitely to create a safer environment."

A Delta flight arriving at John Wayne Airport blew two tires while landing Saturday morning on the airport's main runway, causing it to be closed for two hours. Originating in Salt Lake City, the flight held 63 passengers. No injuries were reported. Officials at John Wayne closed the runway for about two hours while maintenance crews changed the tires before towing the aircraft. The runway reopened at about 11:30 a.m., said airport spokeswoman Ann McCarley.

Deepa Bharath A single-engine airplane whose landing gear failed early Monday managed to make a safe landing at John Wayne Airport, officials said. The pilot of the Mooney M20J, a Laguna Niguel man, took off from John Wayne and was flying to Van Nuys Airport, said Ann McCarley, spokeswoman for JWA. But he realized there was a problem when his indicator light came on, so he returned to Orange County, she said. "He landed on the commercial runway and knocked off two runway lights," she said.

-- Susan McCormack A Cessna 310's right main gear collapsed as it landed at John Wayne Airport on Tuesday evening, causing a five-minute runway closure but no injuries to the plane's two passengers, an airport spokeswoman said. Spokeswoman Nghia Nguyen said the plane attempted to land at about 5:25 p.m. but skidded on the runway and ran into a direction sign. The two men aboard, whose names were not released, walked away from the scene unhurt. The runway was closed "for cautionary reasons," said Nguyen, who added that the six-seat aircraft was based out of John Wayne.

Deborah Wilder Moseley is not the most talented actor in her family - or so she believes. Born to Lynna Joy Armour, who won an Atlas Award in 1956 for her performance in "The Moon is Blue," and William Moseley, who worked for NBC and produced the Sunday afternoon soap opera "Matinee Theater," Moseley grew up in a highly creative environment. It is no wonder, then, that by age 6 she had taken a page from her parents' book. Now 56, the Santa Ana resident has racked up three decades of experience making commercials and working on television and in film.

Male models wearing black V-neck T-shirts clutched electric-colored designer handbags as they strutted down the catwalk at the Newport Beach Marriott on Wednesday morning. What may appear to be the latest runway show for a high-end designer is actually the Newport Beach Police Department's way of encouraging residents to lock their doors and secure their valuables in an effort to reduce crime. The event at the Marriott was the department's way of introducing its new campaign, The Stolen Collection, which features black-and-white ads showing polished male models posing as thieves with stolen cell phones and handbags, in the style of a designer fashion advertisement.

Kendra Scott's jewelry empire began with wire-wrapped stones, a tea box and $500. Oh, and her 3-month-old Baby Bjorn-clad son, Cade, for company. In 2002, the Austin, Texas, resident dipped into her savings to convert her passion for fashion into a full-time business. Her decision, although decried by many, was aimed at digging her family out of a particularly deep financial pit. The risk paid off when every local boutique door she knocked on led to an order. Armed with a mini-collection of only about two dozen pieces, she kept her promise to her husband and doubled their starting costs.

Corona del Mar High School students didn't walk home from Hurley's Walk the Walk championship empty-handed. CdM won the men's Head-to-Toe Design Challenge at the fifth annual "Project Runway"-esque fashion show on the beach Thursday during the U.S. Open of Surfing in Huntington Beach. "I'm really proud of my team," said soon-to-be senior Krissy Zahabi, 16, the show's co-producer and co-director. "They did such a good job. " The school, which won Walk the Walk last year, competed in the national competition against four other schools that made it to the finals.

CORONA DEL MAR — Not many teenagers have a platform that gives them access to hundreds of thousands of people across the nation. Come Aug. 4, however, students at Corona del Mar High School will have that opportunity for exactly five minutes. They plan to have their voices heard. CdM is one of five high schools that made it to the final round of Hurley's fifth annual Walk the Walk, a national competition that pits schools against one another in a five-minute "Project Runway"-esque fashion show on the beach during the U.S. Open of Surfing in Huntington Beach.

Some John Wayne Airport passengers are getting a post-Christmas lump of coal. Airlines canceled a handful of flights Monday and delays persist, as the nation's air travel system recovered from a blizzard on the East Coast. On Monday, Continental Airlines cancelled its 7:45 a.m. and 4 p.m. departures to Newark Liberty International Airport, along with three afternoon arrivals coming from Newark. Delta Airlines canceled its 11:55 a.m. arrival from John F. Kennedy International Airport in New York, and its 1:40 p.m. departure to JFK. Both Newark and JFK were closed Sunday and Monday morning as crews dug runways and ground equipment out from a blanket of snow.

IRVINE — The U.S. Navy did not detect toxins beneath the former El Toro Marine Base's runways and progress is steadily being made on a plume of contamination beneath other sections of the former base, residents were told at last week's City Council meeting. The Navy plans to reevaluate its findings every five years, and if traces of trichloroethylene (TCE), a chemical solvent used on the base in the 1970s, are detected in new areas, the Navy will continue to clean it up, said Jim Callian, Navy Base Realignment and Closure environmental coordinator for El Toro.

This was not your mother’s fashion show! The Friends of Dorothy, a support guild of the AIDS Services Foundation of Orange County, gathered in an Airway Avenue warehouse off the runway of the John Wayne Airport last week for an evening of food, conversation, fundraising and a runway fashion show (adjacent to the JWA runway). But that wasn’t the real show-stopper. First came the young gents showing off the latest menswear from Brooks Bros., South Coast Plaza.

In response to “FAA to tweak takeoffs at JWA,” Feb. 27: The best way to reduce the noise footprint over Newport Beach would be to extend the runway at John Wayne Airport farther north and closer to the San Diego Freeway. The farther back that the air carriers start their southbound take-offs, the higher they will be when they fly over Newport Beach, and the lower their noise impact will be. Extending the runway to the north will also reduce the air pollution caused by taxiing delays, as the air carriers wait to cross the shorter runway, 19 Left, to get to the longer runway, 19 Right.

It was a Tupperware party on steroids, with the mostly female guests sipping chocolate milk out of shot glasses. Fashion royalty took Newport Beach by storm Tuesday. Designer darling Zac Posen debuted his spring/summer 2010 collection with a private runway show at Fashion Island’s Neiman Marcus. It was the first time that the clothing designer, whose clients include Hollywood starlets, has shown his full line outside New York, America’s fashion capital. He’ll be following up today with a public appearance at Neiman Marcus from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. “Zac Posen is probably the youngest established American designer, and we are especially proud that this collection has not been shown anywhere outside of New York City, so O.C. rocks!